Apr 15, 2016
Healthy Chocolate Peanut Butter Raw Cheesecake
For the longest time I’ve wanted to make a Raw Cheesecake. You know, the ones with a date-nut “crust” and a cashew-coconut filling? I think I pinned this Cheesecake back in 2013. Yes, 2013. I don’t know why it took me this long to finally make a dang Raw Cheesecake. Actually, I do know why. They are very time consuming, expensive, and although they’re all natural and made with good-for-you ingredients, they’re not as nutritionally balanced I’d like (very heavy on the fats and sugars, not so much on the protein and fiber). But, it was time to finally bite the bullet.
This no-bake Healthy Chocolate Peanut Butter Raw Cheesecake is ultra creamy and packed with chocolate and peanut butter flavor!
It’s also lower sugar, higher protein, and easier to make than typical Raw Cheesecakes too, whoop whoop!
Healthy Chocolate Peanut Butter Raw Cheesecake
This no-bake Healthy Chocolate Peanut Butter Raw Cheesecake is ultra creamy and packed with chocolate and peanut butter flavor!
Ingredients
Base:
- 4 Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Larabars
Filling:
- 2 cups Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk
- 12 oz Dry Roasted Peanuts
- ⅔ cup Natural Peanut Butter
- 1 tbs Vanilla Extract
- 1 tsp Liquid Stevia Extract
- ½ tsp Pink Himalayan Salt
- 3.3 oz Raw Cacao Butter (melted)
- 63g (3 scoops) Vanilla Brown Rice Protein Powder
Instructions
For the Base:
- Line a 7" springform pan with a parchment paper circle.
- Unwrap the Larabars and flatten them out into the pan.
For the Filling:
- In a high-speed blender (I used my Vitamix), add the almond milk, peanuts, peanut butter, vanilla extract, stevia extract and salt. Blend on high until completely smooth. It will thicken slightly.
- Pour in the melted cacao butter and blend again.
- Add the protein powder and blend one last time.
- Pour the filling over the "crust" and spread it out. Tap the pan on the counter a few times to help get rid of air bubbles. Freeze for ~3 hours, or until the surface is firm when tapped.
- Use an offset spatula to separate the cheesecake from the springform. Slice and serve!
Recipe Notes
This recipe is considered “high-raw.”
Enjoy!
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With love and good eats,
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– Jess
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Soooooo I think you’ve completely outdone yourself with this recipe. Oh my gosh Jessica this is AMAZING <3 I'm thinkin' this will be my birthday dessert this year!
Awwww I am SO SO honored Marina!! I hope your birthday is amazing, and I hope this Cheesecake makes your day even better 😀
Looks very delicious!
Oh my goodness! What a great idea with the Larabars, so genius and such a time and ingredient saver…especially if you find them on sale! And this looks amazing, so simple too! Just might have to make this on the weekend, thank you 🙂
Awww thank you so much Deryn!! Yeah, it saved some money not having to buy a giant tub of dates and yet another container of nuts. But mainly, it was just way easier to use the Larabars 😉
Hope you like the cheesecake!!
-Jess
I was just told to cut out dairy from my diet and this looks amazing. I thought I would never be able to have cheese cake again!
oh my goodness girl! You’re killing the game lately with this and the red wine ice cream <333
xo
Sarah Grace
Hi . i live on France and dont even know what larabars is and i would like to know how to replace them un an easy way
Thks
To replace the Larabars, blend together 2 cups of pitted dates and 2 cups of peanuts in a food processor until it forms a dough ball. Hope you like the raw cheesecake! 😀
-Jess
thank you jessica!! i will try that! have a nice day
If you don’t have Lara bars, what would be a good made from scratch recipe? I’m from the Philippines and Lara bars aren’t available here. Also, most healthier and vegan versions of snack bars are disturbingly expensive…
You can make your homemade Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Lara Bars here! http://www.laurenslatest.com/homemade-peanut-butter-chocolate-chip-lara-bars/
To replace the Larabars, you can blend 2 cups of pitted dates and 2 cups of peanuts in a food processor until it turns into a dough. Hope you like the raw cheesecake! 😀
-Jess
NO WAY is this healthy. I LOVE that you made Larabars as the cheesecake base for this recipe–SO clever! A raw chocolate peanut butter cheesecake that is high in protein and low in sugar is a total game-changer. DEFINITELY keeping this one in mind!
This looks and sounds amazing!!! Peanutbutter and Chocolate is one of my favourite Combinations so this could be my new favourite Thing! <3
I just wanted to ask, could you just leave out the protein powder or is there any substitution? Definitely trying this very soon!
I haven’t tried omitting the brown rice protein powder so I can’t be sure. However, the protein powder helps thicken the mixture, so you could probably omit the protein powder and increase the cacao butter to 6oz. Hope this works out for ya, and I hope you LOVE the cheesecake!! 😀
-Jess
I couldn’t find cacao butter but the health food store in my area thought cacao powder would work well. Any thoughts? Thanks, can’t wait to make this!
I’m afraid cacao powder won’t replace the cacao butter. Cacao butter is like a chocolate-flavored coconut oil, which solidifies when it’s cold. Cacao powder is just like cocoa powder, and the cheesecake filling won’t firm up with that. I buy my cacao butter on Amazon.com because it’s cheaper than in Whole Foods or any other health food store. But, if you don’t want to use it then you can use 1/2 cup coconut oil + 1/4 cup cocoa powder or cacao powder. Just note that the filling won’t be “peanut butter-colored” and it’ll be be chocolatey instead.
Hope this helps Linda! 😀
-Jess
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Can you use any type of protein powder or does it have to be specifically the brown rice protein powder?
The brown rice protein powder helps thicken the filling. I’m not sure what protein powder you were thinking of, but I’m almost positive that whey protein, casein or egg protein won’t work here. I haven’t tried hemp or pea or soy protein, so I can’t be sure if those will work.
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Thank you
Please note that this recipe does not show up under recipes > cake/cupcakes
It’s because I classify this as a cheesecake, not a cake/cupcake. Recipes in the cake/cupcake category are baked and have a flour of some sort 🙂
if you may please give us the nutrition facts of this recipe, I can’t find it
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Ok but has anyone made it? All these comments but I don’t see where anyone has actually tasted it!
I’m with Kim! Has anyone made it uet??
Hi I’m eliana.
I came across your beautiful, awesome, divine and delicious chocolate peanut butter cheesecake. It’s got that WOW factor for me!!!!! I am very much into low calorie desserts such as yours. It’s hard to believe it’s yummy and healthy. My question for you is how much fat and sugar is in it?
Thanks!
This is amazing! Came out beautifully! I didn’t have raw cacao butter, but had no issue substituting with same parts non-salted butter and 1 tbsp cocoa powder. Not as healthy, but it froze just fine. I also switched out the brown rice protein powder for 2 scoops chocolate whey protein and 1 scoop vanilla whey protein. (It was a cheat day dessert so I topped it with mini Reese’s cups 😉 ) Also curious about the overall nutrition facts for this recipe, if anyone has any leads. Amazing recipe! Thanks so much!!
Awwww I’m so glad you got a chance to make the recipe, and I’m happy you liked it!! It’s good to know that butter can replace cacao butter, I didn’t know that. I’m super shocked whey could replace the rice protein too… another win in my book!! 🙂
If anything it came out a little TOO frozen. I let it sit out around 30mins before serving 👍 Great recipe! Thanks again!
This is an amazing…and it looks soo yummy & sound so delicious…I would certainly attempt it after reading this post. …Thanks for your guide.
Love it!